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Welcome to I boats. My experience is that it is somewhat normal for the need to warm for ~5 minutes (maybe not 10). Did you have it in "throttle only"? Throttle only at about 1000 RPM for 3-5 minutes should be good to back on out. What's wrong with the choke? Not sure about play in the shifter.