i'm hoping you mean dave anderson, certainly sounds like the dave anderson i know

Totally agree with Johnni, good to be able to follow a mate from a distance. We're both rooting for Dave Anderson. ( Hopefully that wont be the kiss of death )

i think you are just annoyed that you played badly. sure your opponent played badly , but so did you.

 try to learn something from the hand and move on.

your exactly right, i'm more annoyed with how i played the hand. I'll gladly have him on my table but i need to play hands like that differently.

in a small tourney, 90 runners, i've passed everything and not played a hand. I look down at    the blinds are 25, 50 so far only one limper. I raise to 250 and everyone passes except the limper who calls. flop comes  He checks, i raise 500. He calls. next card  he checks i raise 500, he calls. Next card  he goes all in.

After trying to work out what he had that he would call 250 with i assumed either ace ten or queen jack, so either way i was beat. so i called, which pissed me off no end afterwards. I dont normally call when i think im beat.  so he turned over   

i wasn't out but i was down to 320 in chips

my only conclusion, play against him more often and laydown your cards when you think you are beat.

i cant think of any reason to call. You know your behind. Why risk a reasonable portion of your stack just on the hope of knocking them out. If you had a pair say 9's or better, i would call but not 7,8 suited.

I look at things from two different angles. If i am playing online, then its purely about the money. In that situation my goal is to end up with more than i put in. But if i am playing live in a casino or club, then i have an alternative goal which is to enjoy myself. It is an oppertunity to meet fellow poker players and gain more knowledge about the game and at the same time have a good laugh. This is something i find is missing from online poker. So the money is important, but so is enjoying the game.