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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there would be little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions leading to a higher desire to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way out of the problems.

For the majority of the locals living on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by financial experts who look at the situation that most don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the UK soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely big tourist industry, centered on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is simply unknown.

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