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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be working the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For nearly all of the people living on the tiny local money, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that most do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, cater to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 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 just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain 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 gaming machines and table games.

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

Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through until conditions get better is merely not known.