Rough Start of Day, But One Great Hand to End the Night

I've been getting pounded by two-outers and hands that I've had dominated preflop losing to on sick turns or rivers the past few days... Well today, I was on the end another end of the pole with losing hands to slightly better hands (Don't worry, I won't bore you with a post of a bad beat here).

Tried a few hands at low limit Stud H/L on FTP, a game that I a fish at but wanted to get away from hold'em... Started off ok at the .50-1 table and ended up almost $20 ahead! Decided to open a $1-2 table as well and that's where it went downhill... There was one hand where I got dealt three 8s to start and limped in (big mistake)... My opponent held 7-2-7 and hit what looked to be an innocent 2 on the first draw and on the rest of the streets, the cards where bricks... but on the river, he spiked a hidden 7 to fill up and beat my trips...

Moved to Stars and sat down at a .5-1 PL Omaha Table. The table was about to get juicy as THEPIRAT would sit down and raise EVERY hand and pot everything after... I decided to play this doozy and with Lee no longer at Stars (joking... I like you Lee), the poker god would give me a one time:

PokerStars Game #9513333889: Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/04/20 - 02:24:12 (ET)
Table 'Messina' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: THEPIRAT ($188.85 in chips)
Seat 2: RAILROADJOE ($89.20 in chips)
Seat 3: WPTunderdog ($91.50 in chips)
Seat 4: KillerFrogs ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: DT4000 ($80.50 in chips)
Seat 6: RobieG ($121.30 in chips)
WPTunderdog: posts small blind $0.50
KillerFrogs: posts big blind $1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WPTunderdog [5h 7d Ah 3s]
DT4000: calls $1
RobieG: raises $2 to $3
THEPIRAT: calls $3
RAILROADJOE: folds
WPTunderdog: calls $2.50
KillerFrogs: calls $2
DT4000: calls $2
*** FLOP *** [Kh 8h 6c]
WPTunderdog: checks
KillerFrogs: checks
DT4000: bets $14.25
RobieG: folds
THEPIRAT: calls $14.25
WPTunderdog: raises $57 to $71.25
KillerFrogs: folds
DT4000: raises $6.25 to $77.50 and is all-in
THEPIRAT: raises $108.35 to $185.85 and is all-in
WPTunderdog: calls $17.25 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Kh 8h 6c] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 8h 6c Th] [7h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WPTunderdog: shows [5h 7d Ah 3s] (HI: a flush, Ace high; LO: 8,7,6,3,A)
THEPIRAT: mucks hand
WPTunderdog collected $11 from side pot
WPTunderdog collected $11 from side pot
DT4000: mucks hand
WPTunderdog collected $122.25 from main pot
WPTunderdog collected $122.25 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $269.50 Main pot $244.50. Side pot $22. | Rake $3
Board [Kh 8h 6c Th 7h]
Seat 1: THEPIRAT mucked [8c 6h 9s 5d]
Seat 2: RAILROADJOE (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: WPTunderdog (small blind) showed [5h 7d Ah 3s] and won ($266.50) with HI: a flush, Ace high; LO: 8,7,6,3,A
Seat 4: KillerFrogs (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: DT4000 mucked [Ks Qh 2d Kd]
Seat 6: RobieG folded on the Flop