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The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you could think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe's casinos. In reality, it seems to be functioning the opposite way, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a greater ambition to wager, to try and find a fast win, a way from the difficulty.

For nearly all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local money, there are two common forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It's been said by economists who understand the situation that many don't purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.

Zimbabwe's casinos, on the other foot, mollycoddle the very rich of the state and vacationers. Until recently, there was a very large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated conflict have carved 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 slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. 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 two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer video poker machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe's casinos and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the market has diminished by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has come about, it isn't understood how well the vacationing industry which funds Zimbabwe's casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will be alive till things improve is simply not known.