[wudabum]

its always been said, if youre gonna play it, raise it. limping here, especially in early position, screams small/ medium pocket pair or a very drawing hand. if you just limp, and everyone limps behind you, you have a crap pot and if you do hit your set, youre going to have a very hard time building up a pot. its important to raise your hands, especially in early position because you will be playing out of position so you dont want people to draw out on you either.

also in that particular hand, if you raise, and that short stack reraised all in, the guy with AA would probably have called instead of reraised from what it looks like. you could probably call that all in at that point anyways. shortstacks could be shoving anything preflop (and postflop too)