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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the other way, with the critical market conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way from the problems.

For nearly all of the citizens subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 common forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that most don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the state and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a very large tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about 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 municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till things get better is merely not known.