When you are "observing" - and so time is measured in time, not in hands - perhaps 85% of what you will see will be multi-way pots, simply because they occupy disproportionate chunks of time.


You go further, to the number of time hands are actually shown down, and there were most likley at least three callers before the flop, one obvious good hand, and a stealth better hand that somehow caught, but couldn't be read for the very reason that it was loose calling.


When somebody gets two pair with 74o, and beats me, I am much more likely to re-raise him all the way and make him prove it. Thus, these non-standard pre-flop calls create the longest hands, the most action to catch your eye, and the most likely showdowns so that you can see what someone actually held.


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