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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the opposite way, with the awful market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.

For almost all of the people subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are two established types of gaming, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the prizes are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that the lion’s share do not buy a card with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is centered on one of the domestic or the British football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and sightseers. Up till recently, there was a incredibly big tourist industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machine games. 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, one armed bandits and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has contracted by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will carry through till conditions improve is basically not known.