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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger desire to play, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are remarkably small, but then the prizes are also very large. It’s been said by economists who understand the situation that many don’t buy a card with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the incredibly rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a incredibly large tourist business, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. 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 contain table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is 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.

Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the tourist business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.