I take no pleasure from folding aces

I feel like I’m supposed to be proud of myself or pleased, but I don’t feel like that at all.  Last night I laid down aces and it was the right decision.

I was UTG in a $.10/.25 game.  The table was playing tight so I bet only $.50 because I wanted to get re-raised and not just get a caller.  Instead I got 2 callers, the button and the BB.  The pot is $1.60.  The flop should have been amazing for me.  It was something like 4 7 T with 2 cards to a suit.  The BB leads off with $.50 into the pot.  I don’t want to lose him yet so I call.  The button raises to $5.  Wow, what does that mean?  Trips?  Nut flush draw maybe?  Then the BB re-raises to $10.  All of a sudden I realize I’ve probably got a problem and I fold the aces.  I prepare to feel emasculated and humiliated when the cards are flipped.  I’m expecting to find out that I just laid down the best hand.  The button calls.  The turn card is even more innocuous, a 2 or 3 maybe of a 3rd suit.  The BB goes all in for the rest of his $25 and is called by the button.  The BB turns over TT and the button turns over the nut flush draw with AQ suited.  The turn was another low card not of the button’s suit and the BB pulls in a hefty pot (which he uses to push me around for another hour or so).

OK, so I know that other people would be really excited about what a good laydown they made.  I’m not.  I don’t get dealt aces that often and when I do, I seldom get callers to my pre-flop raises so they essentially win me the blinds.  I want to play my aces to a big win (rather than be the sucker who plays the king he paired to the board to the river against aces).  When I get aces, how come no one ever gets kings or queens, huh?  Why, poker gods, why?

Am I the only one that feels this way?