With the Global Poker League draft rapidly approaching the horizon, Lee Davy attempts a mock draft and finds out that it’s not as easy at it seems.

Christmas arrives in four days time.

I am talking about the Global Poker League (GPL) Draft. I don’t pull all-nighters that often. I didn’t bother for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table. But I will bother for this. I believe it’s one of the most exciting moments in the 2016 poker calendar. It’s the start of a revolution.

An e-mail from Eric Danis, of Global Poker Index (GPI) fame, got me excited this morning. He was talking about creating mock drafts so I thought I would have a play with it myself. It wasn’t easy. In fact, it was impossible. Here are the main reasons why.