The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be very little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.

For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the majority do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till a short time ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.