The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could envision that there would be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way around, with the critical market conditions creating a greater desire to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local wages, there are 2 dominant styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that most don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has diminished by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it is not understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions get better is merely not known.