I just switched over from stars to AP 2 days ago in order to get rakeback and so far I am still adjusting to the site as it does play differently so here are my observations. I am playing $.25nl and as a whole at the micros I think people play worse on AP then stars and there are more aggro spew tards that will not fold a hand. Its great when you actually have a hand but getting folds to standard cbets happen less often.
For some reason my holdem manager hud doesn't automatically launch at the tables I am playing at. I have to go in through table manager and manually connect the hud to the tables. I never had that issue on full tilt or stars so I am not sure if its something I can fix or If its because of the AP software.
The software really sucks compared to stars and full tilt. For example if you want to bet anything less then $1 you cant type the amount in the bet amount box. You have to use the slider which bounces all over the place or you have to use the bet pot or 1/2 pot button.
If you are at the turbo tables you only have like 5 seconds to act and there is no option to request additional time so you have to act really fast. I find it very difficult to even sit at 4 turbo tables at a time without getting multiple time outs. Once I raised utg with pocket Aces on table 1 and had to go to another table to make a decision. By the time I could finish my decision and get back to the table 1 with my Aces some aggro spew tard had 3 bet my Aces but I timed out before I could 4 bet!
The $500 sign up bonus is really hard to clear at the micro limits. In 2 days at .25nl 6max I have played 3k hands and have only cleared $5!
At .50nl and above just about every table is a bad beat jackpot table so at those limits you are paying a lot more commission to fund a jackpot that you will never win.
Overall I think the site is average at best. For a site that offers rakeback and allows you to use a tracking program I think Full Tilt is about as good as it gets. With AP you get 30% rakeback and full tilt is 27% but Full-tilts is dealt and AP is contributed so it probably evens out. Also at .50nl and above its even better at tilt because there are non bad beat jackpot tables. At AP its just about all bad beat tables.
I am probably just going to grind out as much bonus as I can and then switch back over to a full tilt rakeback account.