The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances leading to a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the situation.

For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local wages, there are two popular forms of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the chances of winning are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is centered on either the local or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the very rich of the country and vacationers. Up until a short time ago, there was a very substantial sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain gaming tables, 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 gaming machines and tables.

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

Since the economy has diminished by beyond 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is basically unknown.