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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there would be little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious market conditions creating a higher ambition to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the difficulty.

For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 established forms of gaming, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the subject that most don’t purchase a card with an actual assumption of winning. Zimbet is based on either the local or the British soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the nation and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated crime have carved into this market.

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 only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which has video poker machines and tables.

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

Given that the economy has contracted by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t well-known how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is simply not known.