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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you might envision that there would be little desire for patronizing Zimbabwe's casinos. Actually, it seems to be functioning the other way, with the awful market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to play, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the crisis.

For many of the people living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular types of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of hitting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also remarkably big. It's been said by financial experts who look at the concept that the lion's share don't purchase a ticket with the rational belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the British football leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.

Zimbabwe's gambling halls, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the very rich of the society and vacationers. Up till a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large sightseeing industry, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated crime have carved into this market.

Amongst Zimbabwe's casinos, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 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 only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, 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 gaming machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe's gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Since the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe's gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around until things improve is basically unknown.