Is This Normal?!!

[groo]

If it is normal, it probably gets covered twice a week. In which case I apologize.

I made my first trip to a B&M last night. I played for 2 1/2 hrs. It was a 9 player table and on 4 occasions only 5 people saw the flop. It was typically 6-7 people. I saw 11 flops and 7 of those were in big blind, so it was really 6-7 people seeing the flop at what was usually an 8 handed table.

The big winner was the guy on my right, he saw EVERY flop the entire time I was there. I raise UTG with QQ and four people cold call + the big blind makes it six to the flop, UTG + 1 wins the hand with A's full of 5's after cold calling with A5o. As near as I could tell, he was the 2nd tightest player at the table, he probably only saw 50% of the flops.

I'm not complaning, just curious if this is normal.