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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the crucial market circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to play, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local money, there are two dominant styles of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the incredibly rich of the country and tourists. Until recently, there was a very big vacationing industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated crime have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer 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 have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry on until things get better is simply not known.