The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there would be little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a greater eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the situation.

For most of the locals surviving on the abysmal local earnings, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that most do not purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the state and vacationers. Up until not long ago, there was a very substantial vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 hall, which has just the slots. 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, the pair of which offer table games, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

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

Given that the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has arisen, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is basically unknown.