The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the critical economic circumstances creating a higher ambition to bet, to try and find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the tiny nearby wages, there are 2 popular forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the probabilities of profiting are extremely low, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the majority do not purchase a card with a real assumption of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the very rich of the country and travelers. Until recently, there was a considerably big tourist industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected bloodshed have carved into this trade.

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

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has resulted, it is not understood how healthy the vacationing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive till things get better is merely not known.