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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the atrocious market circumstances leading to a larger ambition to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For the majority of the locals subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 dominant forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also very large. It’s been said by market analysts who study the situation that most do not buy a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly substantial sightseeing industry, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. 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 two of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.