{"id":31710,"date":"2013-09-24T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=31710"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:17:56","slug":"5-curious-oktoberfest-facts-didnt-know-win-fc-bayern-munchen-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/5-curious-oktoberfest-facts-didnt-know-win-fc-bayern-munchen-tickets.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Curious Oktoberfest Facts You Didn&#8217;t Know + Win FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen Tickets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1810 they say was a heck of year. Well at least in Bavaria where the first Oktoberfest took place it was! Here we present 5 Curious Oktoberfest Facts and Traditions that you didn&#8217;t know and of course let you know how you can win FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen tickets!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>First the facts&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Back in 1810 someone had a great idea to honour the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen with what would turn into a 16 day beer festival. Now that\u2019s a wedding party!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Is this beer from Munich? The only beer you\u2019ll find during the festival is brewed within the city limits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>The mayor kicks off the celebrations with a hearty \u201cO\u2019 zapft is!\u201d (\u201cIt\u2019s tapped!\u201d) and then offers the first mug to the Minister-President of the State of Bavaria.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Approximately 7 million liters of beer is drunk over the period of the 16 day festival.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>In November 2008, Bavarian Anita Schwarz set a world record\u00a0when she carried 19 full beer steins!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Make Munich your mission and win FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen tickets!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>But perhaps the best fact of all is that partypoker wants to send you to Munich for the chance to win VIP tickets to watch FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen in action! Right now on partypoker you\u2019ll find a special Mission called that\u2019s right&#8230;. Oktoberfest Mission. Just go ahead and complete it and you could be on your way!<\/p>\n<h3><b>All you need to do is<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Play 1,810 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/how-to-play\/hand-rankings\">hands of poker of any game type<\/a> (1810 was the year of the first Oktoberfest!)<\/li>\n<li>Win a hand with 7-2 offsuit (nicknamed \u2018the beer hand\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>Finish in the money in any of our Oktoberfest tournaments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This Mission will be running during Oktoberfest only (21st September to 6th October 2013). So get a move on and start hitting those objectives if you want a shot at the VIP FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen tickets! <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\">Start Your Mission!<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The all new partypoker<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/the-game-is-changing.html\">The <b>all-new partypoker.com<\/b><\/a>\u00a0has arrived, we&#8217;re so proud of this significant first step in the integration of social features into the real money gaming environment. The phase one release, which went live last week, is jam-packed with exciting new features and a fresh new look, logo and interface, mixing the best of the old with the new in a player-friendly environment.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keep up to date with the all new partypoker!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Get all the latest PartyPoker updates from your favorite social media outlets. You can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/partypoker\"><b>Follow us on Twitter<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\"><b>Like us on Facebook<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1810 they say was a heck of year. Well at least in Bavaria where the first Oktoberfest took place it was! Here we present 5 Curious Oktoberfest Facts and Traditions that you didn&#8217;t know and of course let you know how you can win FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen tickets! First the facts&#8230; Back in 1810 someone<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/5-curious-oktoberfest-facts-didnt-know-win-fc-bayern-munchen-tickets.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":31730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31710"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98771,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions\/98771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}