Good question.
No that wasn't at the moment of color up, as I recall. But it was somewhere close to the color up moment - close to the moment when I paid off the marker and wound up about 11 grand ahead, for that particular session (and yes, I did include the ten bucks in the check that particular session, even when the cashier asked me if I just wanted to cash the ten I said no, include it in the check, "for luck.").
This is after the marker was paid (marker is there, folded):
https://i.imgur.com/YIvJ8col.jpg
And this was the table win via check, for that particular session:
https://i.imgur.com/VXgmyrkl.jpg
The fives are typically for the cocktail waitress. Every time I cash out a win I take one of the C notes and convert it to all fives, which I use for tips at the table for the cocktail waitress when I don't have any red in front of me. I don't drink - it's green tea and still or sparkling waters all the way.
As far as the dealers, I do not just hand them chips, including at the end of the session. I place bets for them alongside mine, starting with red, then green then if I'm really rolling, blacks. I have bet as much as purples alongside my bets for dealers in the past. As I recall there was one run years ago where I was betting and winning $15,000. a hand just hand after hand it was a crazily long run, and at some point I believe I placed a yellow alongside my bet for the dealer and we both won that hand along with many others.
Typically when I am starting to roll I hand the dealer a black chip and say, fifty fifty, and get half green (two $25.s) and fifty in red to start putting progressive bets starting with just $5. alongside my bets for them. Most of them understand this, but on the last trip this one dealer, he's fine, but I think he's an alcoholic he always has that red face and seems a little hungover or out of it, when I tossed him the black chip and said fifty-fifty he just said, Oh, thank you very much and dropped two greens into his toke box! I didn't say anything, but I repeated that story for a couple days to the other dealers and they just laughed. They knew what a space cadet that dealer I was referring to is.
So for a while after that incident I altered my request to specify "fifty red fifty green" whenever I tossed over the black chip.