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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For many of the locals surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two established forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the majority don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected bloodshed have cut 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till things get better is simply not known.