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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be working the other way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a larger ambition to play, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the locals living on the abysmal nearby money, there are two common forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by financial experts who study the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the British soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pander to the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short time ago, there was a incredibly big sightseeing business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved into this market.

Amongst 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 slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing business which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until conditions get better is simply not known.