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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For the majority of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the chances of winning are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English football leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, cater to the very rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short time ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have cut into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, 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 gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has resulted, it is not 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 the casinos will still be around till things improve is simply unknown.