The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate economic conditions creating a bigger desire to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.

For nearly all of the people surviving on the tiny nearby money, there are two dominant types of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly low, but then the winnings are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the idea that most don’t buy a card with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the extremely rich of the nation and vacationers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated 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 five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. 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, both of which have table games, 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 aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is merely unknown.