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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher desire to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the problems.

For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two common types of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many do not buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the very rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally substantial vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. 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 gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has resulted, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till things improve is basically unknown.