The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For many of the citizens living on the meager local earnings, there are two popular types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the society and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a very large sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the vacationing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until things improve is simply not known.