The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there would be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a greater desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.

For many of the people living on the meager local wages, there are two common types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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, both of which have gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is merely not known.