The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might think that there might be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the critical economic circumstances creating a larger desire to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way from the situation.

For most of the citizens subsisting on the abysmal local money, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that many don’t purchase a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the astonishingly rich of the nation and travelers. Until recently, there was a extremely large vacationing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected violence have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and table games.

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

Given that the economy has deflated by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is simply unknown.