The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the opposite way, with the desperate economic conditions leading to a higher eagerness to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the citizens surviving on the abysmal local money, there are two common forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how healthy the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will be alive till things improve is merely unknown.