GPI Receives Orders to Supply Gaming Tables and Related Equipment in Delaware

LAS VEGAS, April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gaming Partners International Corporation (Nasdaq: GPIC), a leading provider of casino currency and table game equipment worldwide, announced that it has received permission from the Delaware Lottery to conduct business in the state of Delaware prior to its licensure as a gaming vendor. This allows GPI to immediately sell chips, gaming tables, and related equipment to casinos throughout Delaware.

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Subsequent to this approval, GPI received major orders from two casinos in Delaware – Dover Downs Hotel & Casino and Harrington Raceway & Casino.

GPI secured an agreement to supply to Dover Downs Hotel & Casino all of its gaming chips and related equipment.  Dover Downs will purchase GPI's popular Paulson® line of gaming chips, as well as precision dice, playing cards, table layouts and other table games equipment.  GPI will additionally supply Dover Downs with gaming tables, including blackjack, craps, baccarat, roulette and poker tables.

GPI also received an order from Harrington Raceway & Casino to supply gaming tables for its casino floor, as well as for the high-limit room. In addition to the blackjack, baccarat, craps, poker and roulette tables, GPI is furnishing the casino with pit and poker host podiums. All of the tables and podiums will be custom-designed and built to the casino's unique aesthetic and operational requirements.

"GPI is extremely pleased to receive these initial orders for this table game market expansion," said Greg Gronau, President and CEO of GPI.  "This market is on the fast track with tight deadlines and we will assist these gaming properties to best prepare for the expeditious implementation of table gaming on their casino floor."

About Gaming Partners International Corporation

GPI manufactures and supplies casino table games and equipment to licensed casinos worldwide.  Under the brand names of Paulson®, Bourgogne et Grasset® and Bud Jones®, GPI provides casino currency such as chips, plaques and jetons; gaming furniture and accessories; table layouts; playing cards; dice; and roulette wheels.  GPI pioneered the use of security features such as RFID technology in casino chips, and provides RFID solutions including chips, readers and displays.  Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, GPI also has offices Beaune, France; San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico; Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Gulfport Mississippi.  For additional information, please visit www.gpigaming.com.

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This release contains "forward-looking statements" based on current expectations involving known and unknown risks and uncertainties, such as statements relating to anticipated future sales or the timing thereof; the long-term growth and prospects of our business or any jurisdiction, including Delaware, the duration or effects of unfavorable economic conditions which may reduce our product sales; and the long term potential of the RFID gaming chips market and the ability of GPI to capitalize on any such growth opportunities. Actual results or achievements may be materially different from those expressed or implied. GPI's plans and objectives are based on assumptions involving judgments with respect to future economic, competitive and market conditions, the timing and its ability to consummate acquisitions, and future business decisions and other risks and uncertainties identified in Part I-Item 1A, "Risk Factors" of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2009, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond its control. Therefore, there can be no assurance that any forward-looking statement will prove to be accurate.

SOURCE Gaming Partners International Corporation

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