POWER OF ATTORNEY

	The undersigned hereby appoints, authorizes and designates David W.
Grimes, an individual, signing alone as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact
to:

	1. Prepare and sign any applicable Form 3, Initial Statement of
	   Beneficial Ownership ("Form 3"), Form 4, Statement of Changes of
	   Beneficial Ownership of Securities ("Form 4"), any applicable
	   Form 5, Annual Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities
	   ("Form 5"), and any amendment thereto, with respect to the
	   undersigned's ownership of Gaming Partners International
  	   Corporation common stock;

	2. Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
	   undersigned which may be necessary or desirable in connection with
	   the filing of any Form 3, Form 4, Form 5 and any amendment thereto,
	   if necessary, with the United States Securities and Exchange
	   Commission; and

	3. Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
   	   foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
	   benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
	   undersigned in connection with the filing of any Form 3, Form 4,
	   Form 5 and any amendment thereto, if necessary it being understood
           that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of
           the undersigned pursuant to this power of attorney shall be in such
	   form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-
	   in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and
powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned
might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation for and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-
fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

	This power of attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file any Form 3, Form 4, Form 5 or any
amendment thereto, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.The undersigned hereby
revokes any and all powers of attorney previously executed as of an earlier
date for the same or similar purpose.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this power of attorney
to be executed as of this 19th day of April, 2007.

				/s/ Alain Thieffry
				    Alain Thieffry
STATE OF NEVADA)
               ) ss.
COUNTY OF CLARK}

On this 19th day of April, 2007, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public
in and for the County of Clark, State of Nevada, duly commissioned and sworn,
personally appeared Charles R. Henry known/proved to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the within instrument, and who acknowledge to me that
he executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes
herein mentioned.

       				/s/Gay A. Nordfelt
				   	NOTARY PUBLIC

(SEAL)

Notary Public State of Nevada
No. 02-77501-1
My appt. exp. Sept. 5, 2010