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

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

  • WSOP Binions THC

  • WSOP Rio RHC


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churlbut18

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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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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.
 
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.
 

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