Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out Major Poker Sites and Media Outlets

A massive Cloudflare outage on November 18 caused widespread disruption across the internet, and several online poker rooms and poker media sites were caught in the fallout.

WPT Global and a handful of sweepstakes online poker sites were among the services affected, with the outage knocking countless websites, apps, and online services offline for several hours. WPT Global was among the first poker operators to acknowledge problems, posting on X that “ongoing network issues” had forced the room to cancel and refund all running MTTs in accordance with its policy.

Its sister site, ClubWPT Gold, the sweepstakes platform of WPT, serving the US and Canada, also faced login issues during the same window. Players also reported difficulties accessing other sweepstakes sites like Clubs Poker and Stake US. Most major international real-money poker rooms, including PokerStars, GGPoker, 888poker, PartyPoker, and Unibet, remained largely unaffected.