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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be little affinity for supporting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it appears to be functioning the opposite way around, with the crucial economic circumstances leading to a greater ambition to bet, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the problems.

For many of the people subsisting on the meager local money, there are two established styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the situation that many don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the United Kingston soccer leagues and involves determining the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, mollycoddle the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until recently, there was a incredibly large vacationing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer slot machines and tables.

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

Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is basically unknown.