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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there might be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a larger ambition to bet, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For almost all of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are two established forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely low, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that many don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime 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 five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and table games.

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

Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till conditions improve is merely unknown.