The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For most of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two common forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are extremely small, but then the winnings are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until recently, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 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 machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, 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 offer gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not well-known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is simply unknown.