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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For the majority of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular types of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most do not buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the exceedingly rich of the country and travelers. Until a short while ago, there was a very big sightseeing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on until conditions improve is merely not known.