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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the desperate market conditions creating a higher desire to bet, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the problems.

For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby earnings, there are two dominant types of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the chances of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who study the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the country and tourists. Up till recently, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and connected crime have cut into this trade.

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

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has cropped up, it is not known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will be alive until things get better is basically unknown.