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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the situation.

For most of the locals subsisting on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of hitting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and tourists. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally large tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. 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 offer gaming tables, slot machines 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 video poker machines and tables.

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

Since the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until things improve is basically not known.