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  One of the benefits of playing online poker is that physical tells are no longer part of the mix. This means that when your hole cards consist of two aces you are free to do some sort of victory dance in your pajamas without your opponents picking up on your glee. These are widely regarded as the best two cards you can ever be dealt. The issue with how highly coveted these cards are, is that they are also the hardest ones to lay down when the time comes.



  Let's say you have your pair of Aces, and you have bet aggressively enough to knock a few people out of the hand, leaving your cards less vulnerable to drawing hands. The flop comes out as 2h/2s/Kh. Most people's first instinct would be like "cool, I have two pair". This is usually a pretty understandable reaction considering the power at play, but your hand is far from safe. If the guy under the gun suddenly starts acting like they just won the lotto, and is shoveling money into the pot like a Kennedy at a strip club, you may have a problem.



  While it is possible that somebody is overreacting to the King on the board, and is finding an inordinate amount of pleasure in a pair of kings, the presence of the pair of 2s should blunt any excitement over the single King. Chances are that the person who is getting all excited probably has a 2 or possibly a 2/K in their hand.



  If you were appropriately aggressive before the flop and didn't knock somebody with a 2 in their hand out of the pot, it is a reasonable assumption that the 2 is paired up with a rather strong card. In this case, a King would be a reasonable guess.



  Under this circumstance, assuming that there is at least a 2 in their hand your hand needs a lot of help. You either need another Ace to fall to give you a superior three-of-a-kind, or you need two more Kings to show up. If they have a 2/K, then more Kings on the board doesn't help your cause. Either way you are not in a good position. The most painful thing in the world to do here is also the correct decision: laying your pair of Aces down.