The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a higher ambition to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For the majority of the locals living on the tiny nearby money, there are two common types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the situation that many do not buy a card 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 games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely large sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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, the pair of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits and video poker 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 above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it is not understood how healthy the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will survive till conditions improve is simply unknown.