The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a larger ambition to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For nearly all of the people subsisting on the tiny local money, there are 2 common types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up till not long ago, there was a incredibly substantial tourist industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, 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 slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has diminished by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t known how well the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions improve is merely unknown.