The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a greater desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For almost all of the people living on the tiny local earnings, there are two common forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, cater to the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Up till recently, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.

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

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till things get better is basically not known.