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The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you could think that there might be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the desperate market conditions creating a bigger desire to play, to try and discover a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.

For almost all of the people living on the abysmal local wages, there are two established types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are extremely tiny, but then the prizes are also surprisingly large. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the state and tourists. Up till not long ago, there was a very large tourist business, founded on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the 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 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, both of which offer video poker machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the market has shrunk by beyond 40 percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until things improve is basically unknown.