The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could imagine that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a larger eagerness to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For many of the citizens surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 established styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the incredibly rich of the society and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. 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 poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably 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 contracted by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely not known.