The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the atrocious economic conditions leading to a larger desire to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are 2 common types of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that most do not purchase a card with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the exceedingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, built on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not well-known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive till conditions get better is merely not known.