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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the other way, with the desperate economic circumstances creating a larger desire to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way from the problems.

For nearly all of the people living on the tiny nearby money, there are 2 common forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, cater to the very rich of the country and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated bloodshed 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 slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have gaming tables, slots and video 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 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 contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.