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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a larger eagerness to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that most do not purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and tourists. Up until a short while ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated crime have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer video poker machines and tables.

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

Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions get better is merely unknown.