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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a larger desire to wager, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the citizens subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the chances of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by economists who look at the subject that many do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the nation and tourists. Up until recently, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this market.

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 Casino, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer gaming machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite 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.

Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not understood how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry through until things get better is merely unknown.