Lee Davy continues his confessions series by breaking down his reasoning behind his nominations for the 2014 Global Poker Index European Poker Awards.

I am proud to announce that I have been asked to join a select band of people who will create the initial short list for the 2014 Global Poker Index (GPI) European Poker Awards.

I didn’t cast a vote in all of the categories. I found some easy, others hard, some received one vote, others two, and here most of them, laid out, just for you.

Breakout Player of the Year

There were four people who immediately sprung to mind when considering my vote in this category: Martin Jacobson, Jack Salter, Simon Deadman and Mustapha Kanit.

The inclusion of Jacobson might seem strange to some of you. He was already established as one of the best in the business, well before his $10m win, but he fitted the category criteria perfectly. In the end I left him out, instead voting for him in the ‘Tournament Performance of the Year’ category.

Simon Deadman was the other player to miss out by a worm’s testicle. His consistency, throughout 2014 was outstanding, but I thought Kanit’s two titles at the Aussie Millions, and Salter’s performances in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final, and the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP-APAC) just edged him out.