Learning to love cash games and Redbull Vs Relentless

On Saturday night I was invited to a home game that I play at every couple of months or so. I know the regulars well and there were some new additions to the table who were in town for the weekend. Now we usually play sit and gos, £10 in the pot each and perhaps a cash game at the end but the noobs decided they wanted to play as 10/20p cash game, £20 buy in and take it from there so reluctantly we agreed. I say reluctantly becasue I am not much of a cash game player. I have always been wary of cash games, I like to know my stake is in for a tournament and avoid the rebuy temptations since a bad night at the opening of Basement Jacks 18 months ago where I lost my tournament winnings at half past stupid in the morning against the advice of my long suffering husband Kojack. We must factor in at this point a change in my usual poker fuel. Having made a last minute trip to the Esso garage across the road I necked a rather large can of Relentless, opting for that over my usual Redbull fix. Not sure of how this would work out I plunged into the game and played the first hand with my ace 7 off suit. This is my favourite hand and being stupidly superstitious I had to give it a go based on no other factor than 'this is my lucky hand' (I was planning to play super tight, just coz it was in my head to do that - the fear factor). Now I don't know if it had anything to do the the change in beverage (please, princess, pull yourself together...) but I flopped two 7s and but another on the turn to get my quads and take the table for a large chunk of their cash. That set me up for the night and earned me some table respect, but here is the thing, I didn't push all in. I milked it. Now the strategists among you will be asking the same as kojack, why didn't I? Well this where I throw the books out of the window (yeah, like I didn't already!)and tell you that actually, I don't know. I like to win and am not the most heartless of players so I guess I would have felt bad about some one having to rebuy after the first hand. I was £40 up and was happy with that, I didn't feel like I had to draw blood at this point. Besides, any decent parent would tell you that if you look after the pennies the pounds take care of themselves. I took lots of pennies. I also took some red wine and Talisca blend whiskey which might be why I lost a massive hand to a Portuguese bluff-meister general shortly before I went home. We're still friends...and I never re-buy.