ICONS: WSOP Binions vs WSOP Rio (poll) (1 Viewer)

[churlbut18]

I love both sets for different reasons. So much history. Masterful and iconic in their own right.

Which set do you think is most iconic (and why)?

Does the THC mold and shaped inlays win out?

Curious which way PCF leans.

 

[DirtyTIVA]

@doublebooyah85

 

[duffman]

Binion's by far. No contest imho. Produced at a time when Paul-Son owned the company. Leaded. 8V. Shaped Inlays. THC mold. Chips were handled and in the stacks of legends. A lot of whom, who have since passed. When the WSOP moved to the Rio it lost it's old school intimate charm.

 

[Jacks]

Because of the time I grew up and was watching poker, the Rio chips are pure nostalgia. So for that reason they win.

But solely as chips, I think the Binions are superior.

 

[BKisback]

^this. Although the Moneymaker, Raymer, and Hachem year chips probably speak loudest to me.

 

[RocAFella1]

Don’t forget top top Jamie Gold.

 

[ss454]

Binyons are grail for me!

 

[ChipFinderSK]

Rio short term (since they’re the new hotness), Binion’s long term (by next year and beyond)

 

[Brandon]

I love both sets for different reasons. So much history. Masterful and iconic in their own right.

Which set do you think is most iconic (and why)?

Does the THC mold and shaped inlays win out?

Curious which way PCF leans.

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Where’s the smash all button??

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Even before voting or seeing what the current tally is, Rio are going to win simply because that's what the majority of folks have seen at WSOP telecasts/streams for the last decade. Recent will always win.

Unfortunately, the Binion's chips were only seen in older episodes. Even in the Moneymaker year, the lower denoms were the ones in play with the higher denoms that were seen in the latter phases of that tournament being the Bud Jones chips.

Even Stuey's "comeback" win out on Fremont street were Bud Jones.

The "good" chips weren't really seen in any of the footage. Tons of history with them and tons of well known and historically significant players used them, but they are only in the mind of the chippers here because we know the significance of them. Beyond that, nobody really knows what they are.



I'm with @DirtyTIVA and @Brandon, yes, all and both please, but I have a pretty good sense of where the poll will end.

 

[upNdown]

No reason to compare goats (especially when the leaded, shaped inlay, 8V THCs are so clearly superior.) Both sets are amazing.

 

[SuckoutKing]

I choose Rio because the set is very wide with chip sizes (39, 43, 48, 50mm), colors are vivid and pop. The 50 mm 8v chips are the best I've seen.

 

[Brandon]

Bud Jones too, just as a Moneymaker nostalgia piece.

 

[Brandon]

 

[ss454]

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I tried to buy a uncut version of that felt (think it was a clone) via Facebook group and never received it.

 

[DirtyTIVA]

I tried to buy a uncut version of that felt (think it was a clone) via Facebook group and never received it.

Spinettis sells the genuine felt from last year(?) @Okku

 

[cpac54]

Rio ainec

 

[doublebooyah85]

If the Binions had more denominations it would be closer, but Rio WSOP for the win.

 

[doublebooyah85]

 

[churlbut18]

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Well that didn’t help…. Lol

 

[Grimace]

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It’s more of a 1 and 1a situation. They are both amazing but if I have to choose it’s the Binions. No wait the Rio’s. Ok Binions. There choice made

 

[Smokestack997]

Binions for sure. I really like the 5's colors

 

[GreatWhiteDope]

It would be the Rio chips for me because those are the exact chips I played with the first time I played the Main Event so the connection is more personal.