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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a bigger desire to gamble, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby money, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably low, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the state and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing business, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed have carved into this market.

Among 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 slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is simply not known.