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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little affinity for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a bigger ambition to play, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.

For almost all of the citizens surviving on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two popular types of gambling, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also very high. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on one of the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing business, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime have carved into this trade.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has deflated by more than 40% in recent years and with the connected poverty and violence that has come about, it isn’t known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until conditions get better is basically unknown.