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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For the majority of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are two dominant types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the subject that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the national or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the country and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 Casino, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come about, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive till things improve is basically not known.