The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances creating a higher ambition to bet, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For the majority of the citizens surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two common forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are extremely low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the United Kingston football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the exceedingly rich of the country and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a incredibly large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, 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 hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not understood how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is simply not known.