The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For almost all of the people living on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the society and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is simply unknown.