The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two dominant types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the prizes are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many don’t buy a card with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Until recently, there was a considerably big tourist business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, the pair of which offer table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically unknown.