The Right Timing

I was playing the 15-30 at the bellagio when this hand came up. The game was what was expected, loose action. A guy on my right pretty aggressive preflop, you know, likes to make a lot of position raises with weak hands. I've been three-betting him with hands I would raise myself, trying to isolate.
One hand, he had a Q8, not sure if he raised preflop with it, but that's not the point here. His opponent had flopped top two Nines and Tens on a T93 board. The player on my right turned a Queen, and after he raised, the T9 3-bet him. The river paired 3's [T93 Q 3] and it went check, check. T9 showed his hand, and Q8 mucked, not realizing that he hand counterfieted that shit until it was too late.
The very next hand, he raised preflop, I smell a steam raise, so I three-bet him with an A8 offsuit. I normally don't advocate playing an A8 in a raised pot, but this was a situational play. The guy on the button didn't see my 3-bet and called 2 cold, but when he found that I three-bet, he called anyway, oops. Anyway, the flop came down 3-flush, I bet, the button called, the guy on my right mucked immediately. I turned the nut flush vs. the button's king high flush (KT), so I was fortunate to win a good pot. But the play was intended to isolate the guy steaming, and to win take the pot away from him, which worked. The button wouldn't have called the three bet had he known, so it was a good play, since the player on my right wouldve given up on the flop. Timing and luck worked out for me there. Vegas is great.