I know open limping sucks, but I'm having trouble playing small pp's utg or even mp. The problem I'm having is, let's say I raise preflop with 44 UTG, I get 3 callers. Flop misses, then it's check/fold. Is this kind of play ok? If I did this every time I missed a set would it be +EV? I don't really want to cut small pp's out of my UTG range, I don't think anyone folds a pp UTG in 6max anyways.

Also same scenario as before, except I get 3betted by the CO and everyone else folds to me, is set hunting still +EV assuming 100bb stacks?

Basically how do you play small pp's UTG?