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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the crucial economic conditions creating a greater desire to gamble, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the crisis.

For many of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are 2 established forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lottery where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by economists who study the subject that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pander to the incredibly rich of the country and sightseers. Until a short while ago, there was a considerably big vacationing industry, based on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain table games, 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 have gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will carry on till conditions get better is basically not known.

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