The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the critical market conditions creating a greater eagerness to play, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For most of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of hitting are unbelievably tiny, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, look after the extremely rich of the nation and travelers. Up until recently, there was a very large tourist business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions improve is merely not known.