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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a larger desire to bet, to attempt to locate a fast win, a way out of the situation.

For many of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are 2 common styles of gambling, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t buy a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the British soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, cater to the extremely rich of the country and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing business, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected conflict have cut into this market.

Amongst 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 gambling den, which has just the slots. 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, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till things get better is basically not known.